Tillamook headlight., October 01, 1908, Image 3

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 1
NO RETREAT
Impracticable Democratic Proposi
lion for Trust Control.
Now is the firm to invest in Tillamook property
I alues will double in a few years
Ted McKinley,
POLICES
Convincing Exposition of Fallacy of
Bryan’s Panacea for Solving
Problems of Modern
Business.
W, E, Catterlin.
M c K inley & catterlin
Real Estate Agents
Main Street, Tillamook City, op. Larsen House
(From
Hughes* Youngstown
speech. )
U hen we consider remedies that are
proposed for the trusts, we find our-
selres Journeying in a land of dreams.
Again the magician of 1896 waves his
wand At a stroke difficulties disap-
pear and the complex problems of mod-
ern business are forgotten in tbe fas­
cination of the simple panacea.
as the free coinage of silver in
ratio of 16 to 1 was to destroy the
curse of gold, so the new found specific
of equal perfection is to remove the
curse of industrial oppression. The de-
lusion of 1908 Is comparable only to
that of twelve years ago.
The first sugestión Is that the law
Bhould prevent a duplication
rectors among competing corporations.
However advisable It may be to have
Independent directorates of competing
corporations, it would seem Bill I more
Important to have independent stock­
holders, for a majority of the stock-
holders of a corporation choose the di-
rectors.
If a law were passed pre­
venting the duplication of directors it
would easily be evaded In the selection
of men who would represent the same
nterests The most ordinary exper­
ience shows that It Is not necessary to
serve on a board of directors In order
to control its proceedings. U hatever
the advantage of such a law as is pro­
pooed. It hardly rises to the dignity of
a “remedy. or vindicates Its title to a
place tn an imposing scheme of reform
outlined in a national platform.
But the more important proposal Is
“that
manufacturing or tradin
corporation engaged in interstate com­
merce shall be required to take out a
federal license before It shall be per-
mitted to control as much as 25 per
cent of the product In which it deals.
A license is permission, and the object
of the remedy Is not to regulate large
THE SENTINEL STANDS FIRMLY IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLAG.
businesses, but to destroj* trusts. Hence
From the Baltimore American.
the supposed efficiency of tbe plan is to
be found in the prohibition of the con-
trol by any such corporation “of more exceptions to cover such cases, and we TAFT COMES FKOM GOOD STOCK. HOW TAFT WAS SOUGHT BY
ban 30 per cent of the total amount of have learned that it is equally “binding
M KIKLEY.
Family Ranked Among the Plxin
ny product consumed In the United as to what It omits.
People for Mxny Tears.
The Manner in Which the Republi­
tates.
If w’e could imagine such a crude
This is another delusion of
The Taits—those who at present ar<>
prohibition to be enacted into law, and
can Candidate Was Called to a
It might be interesting to Inquire to be regarded as valid, what would be the Tafts—hail ancestrally from Us­
Larger Sphere of Action.
hat is the meaning of “any product tbe effect? Mr. Bryan, with his usual bridge, Mass. They say that Tafts ure
One afternoon early in 1900, when
nsumed in the United States.” Does readiness, suggests that the concern so thick in Uxbridge that even a wom­ Judge William H. Taft was dictating
refer to a class of commodities? may sell as much of its plants as are an can't throw a stone without bitting a decision of the United States Court
d, If so, how shall the classes be de not needed to produce the amount al-
in the Federal Building In Cincinnati,
Some years ago—In 1874, to be exact a telegram was placed in his hands.
d? Or does it refer to each sepa- lowed by law. He speaks as though
e article of commerce? And, if so, every manufacturing concern had as —there »as a Tuft reunion u Ux- He tore off the envelope and was sur­
t account does this proposal take many fully equipped units of produc­ bridge, to which descendants of the prised to find a telegram from Presi
the skill and initiative of manu fac­ tion as would correspond to any given original Robert Tutt ( a in- flocking dent William McKinley, reading:
ers who have built up a more or percentage of trade which it might be frq;n all parts of the couutry. One ot
“I shall take it as a great favor if you
exclusive trade In particular ar­ required to lop off. Plants are not so the conspicuous features of the affair will call on me some time next week.
was
a
historical
address
by
Alphonso
es. often protected by trade marks, easily dismembered. Reduction in out­
Judge Taft guessed at the meaning
ough In most active competition put means reduction in work, reduction Taft, father of the present Republican
other articles designed for the In the number of men employed and candii ate. He traced the history of of the summons and guessed wrong
e general purixtse and seeking the curtailment of the efficiency of a going various branches of the family, and He went to Washington and w’as shown
us suppose a concern when he came to the one to which he Into a room at the White House, where
market? In a desire tn correct concern.
he met the President and Secretary
evils of business are we to place which controls 80 per cent of a given and his children belonged he said:
Our family have not embarked much Long of the Navy, Later, hlibu Root.
eruba rgo upon honest endeavor product—that Is to say, makes and
activities present none of the sells $8,000.000 in value out of a tots! upon national politics, except that they the Secretary* of War, came in. Thru,
requiring remedies? And, if trade in the prodiict amounting to $10,- have shared in the battles of tbe couu to use Mr. Taft’s own words:
what statutory definitions shall be 000,000. Is it to tie compelled to reduce try when national Independence was
“Mr. McKinley said that he wanted to
to be adequate and Just if we its output to $2.000,000 because only to be won. and also when the Union send me to the Philippines to help in the
But
brilliant
political
was
at
stake.
work
of establishing civil government as
own our prohibition in terms of $2.000,000 In value are made by others?
e or ratio of business and not in Then, If it could sell a part of its plant careers have not been characteristic of the army moved on. I thought of my
of right and wrong? If we on Mr. Bryan s theory. what should it the Tafts in the part. It is not safe to place on lae bench and hesitated.
I believed and said we could get
air. Bryan’s proposal, to what pe- sell? Should it »11 off enough to re- say what may be in store for them sides,
along without the Philippines.
There
is
a
tide
in
the
affairs
of
men
duce
its
capacity
to
$.>.000.000,
and
f production is the prohibition
“ ‘But we have them and must take
ly? Is the excess for a day or allow three-fifths of Its plant to remain and also of families.
care of them,’ the President replied.
This is taken from the account of
month to be considered? Or is idle until others developed a capacity
“ ‘You are at tbe turning of the ways
handling the other $5,000,000? the reunion published at the time. Al­ in your life,’ Mr. Root then lòwn e<
rage production for a year to be
And what system shall be de Should it assume that the total trade phonso Taft would perhaps have been . ‘The bench is the easy road, You can
by w’hicb suitable Information will increase and .is not always to re- somewhat dazzled if he could have fore­ stay there and be comfortable, On the
furnished In tbe nature of dan- main at $10,000,(MM), and hence retain seen bow quickly and brilliantly the contrary, the Philippines will demand per­
als along the routes of tiade a larger portion of Its plant in Idle- family would proceed to "embark upon sonal sacrifices and risks and much hard
He himself started work, but you will have an opportunity
the manufacturer
know ness? Or suppose a concern controls national polities.
of doing your country a very great ser­
e is about to exceed the pre- 100 per cent of the trade in some artl- the turn of the tide which he predict- vice.’ I went home, and argued the mat­
It seems to be reaching its flood ter for two weeks.”
ratlo? He may Justly be re- cle, what plants shall it retain?
o govern bis own conduct, but can produce nothing until others pro- in the career of the son who that year
Tiie telegram to Cincinnati opened
11 he be apprised of the con- duce; but It may produce an amount was entering Yale.
As Alphonso Taft described his Im the door of American history to Wil
thers upon which is to depend equal to the production of others, and
It hopes the trade will grow. What a mediate ancestors one sees where his limn H. Taft and made him the Repub­
or Innocence?
vision of business uncertainty and con- Bon got certain characteristics. Peter lican candidate for President of tbe
aient
confer
in the exclusive right to man- fusion, of idle and Impaired plants, of Taft (1715) was “a large, good look­ United States.
and sell. Are these laws to the ruin of worktngmen whose lives ing man of magnanimous disposition.
Obllantlona of Civil War.
have clustered around particular indus­ He bad four sons.
ed because a
private
Money Indebteduesa Is not the only
Aaron, the candidate's ancestor, w»>
Indefensible and Intolerable?” tries and who depend upon their con-
> lost obligation we Incurred and assumed
tinued efficiency, is presented by this also so magnanimous
■ • ».rune R„,onlnB.
money
by
indorsing
a
friend's
notes; In the great civil war There was n
the
destruction
of
fanciful
remedy
for
mple of Mr. Bryau's reason-
still greater debt, an everlasting obll
he
was
a
man
"of
great
intelligence
trusts
und In his statement
Apart from tills. if the dissolution nnd Integrity. And then, going some­ gallon that could never be paid In full.
corporation controls 50 per
But In the years that have followed,
e total product It supplies were effected In the manner desired what further hack, there was Captain the Republican party has Inaugurated
>ns of people with that prod- and portions of plants could be sold William Taft, who took Blarney Css and developed pension laws under
e are. of course, specialties and were rdd as suggested, to whom tie In the sixteenth century "by blar- which over three and one-half billion
mllltary
a limited market and are would the sale be made? Would it he ney quite as much as
Goral stock was Captain doll are have been paid to disabled
relatively small number of necessarily to foes or to those smbl prowess
veterans or to the survivors of those
of the United States. More tlous to be competitors and anxious to William from which to make a twen- who gave their Ilves for tbelr country
century Secretary of War Wil
cent, and Indeed even as take advpjitage of its plight?
and their flag. Thia pension system, a
This proposal in its utter disregard 11.1 ID
per cent of the trade In
product of the policy of the Republican
of
the
farts
of
business.
In
Its
suhstl-
may be In the control
party, has no precedent In blstory and
tntion
of
the
phantasies
of
tbe
Imagin
lar corporation. Thia may.
Republican parry la not only no equal In justice and generosity
relatively a small corpora- atlon for the realities of life, stamps rich in men. but rich In practical and among the nations of tbe earth.—lion
never have a api red to the the Demosrratic platform with the fatal hcnefl'-lal principles—It is rich too In James 8 Sherman
wn of a “trust
But by stamp of 1890. The commerce and in­ Its record. In promisee performed
dustry of this country, tbe Interests of pledges fulfilled, and so we are
its particular line
Colonel Bryan laments tba "dlacrtml
meeting satisfactorily a ita ware earners and of Its Interdepend party and party principles flrat
nation that has been going on against
ent
maun,
who
mast
rely
upon
the
; or by reason of some
will acquiesce In the choice of tbe
the fanner" in electing an few tillera
a or advantage of expsrl- stability of business, cannot affurd to jority, rallying around the standard of the noil to Congress and the Senate.
control tbe trade In a glv- give license to such vagaries.
bearer wbo will carry ns again to vie- Wbnt troublea him chiefly, however, ia
In the Kflemnlty with which this tory.— Hon. James 8 Rberman.
commerce Or. suppose a
the discrimination which th* whois
proposal
has
been
declared,
and
tbe
in-
s tbe whole trade In
American nation eierciSM «gainst a
Mr.
Bryan
might
make
a
bit
In
the
B
ist
enee
with
which
It
is
advocated.
we
byproduct which It has
certain fanner of Lincoln. Neb. In de
Rocky
Mountain
States
by
proposing
a
find
an
appropriate
test
of
the
capacity
ntageona to make. Is tbe
to the White
of our opp»meats to deal wisely with federal guaranty of mining stock ds- ellnlug to elect
lb ted?
House.—New York Tribune.
posItS.-eOOMna
Bee.
the
problema
of
the
day.
tic platform makes
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